D.M. v. Superior Court

Opinion

KLEIN, P. J.

Petitioner D.M. seeks a writ of mandate directing respondent superior court to vacate its order of October 14, 2010, denying D.M.’s peremptory challenge to Referee Kesler (the Referee) pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 170.6, and to enter a new and different order transferring the matter to another judicial officer.1

*882The Referee denied D.M.’s peremptory challenge as untimely, on the ground the matter had been assigned by the presiding judge of the juvenile court to the Referee “for all purposes including trial,” and a peremptory challenge to an all-purpose judge…